Chapter 44 Huaihua Machinery Factory 2

Not long after, the ox cart stopped by the roadside.

"Xingzi, we're here at the machinery factory." The voice of the cattle herder came.

Xing Jian jumped up and saw the big words "Locust Tree Machinery Factory" at the intersection.

After saying goodbye to the cowherd uncle, Xingjian picked up his tattered little bag and walked towards the entrance of the machinery factory.

"Uncle, can you tell me how to get to the staff dormitory? I'm a new employee." Xingjian knocked on the window of the security room at the door.

The security guard heard the voice, stuck his head out of the window, and looked up and down at the young man who was speaking in front of him.

Seeing a long gown that couldn't be more torn and a bag that looked almost like rags, the security guard frowned and pointed without saying a word, then sat back on the rattan chair in the security room.

Following the direction pointed by the security guard, Xing Jian quickly found the staff dormitory. Then he looked at the note written by Village Chief Niu in his hand and walked into the dormitory building.

There are not many people living in the staff dormitory of Robinia Machinery Factory. Most of the people working here are residents of Huaixiang Town. There are very few people like Xingjian who come from rural areas. There are many vacant dormitories. The dormitory number Xingjian got is a four-person room, but there are only two people living here, including Xingjian.

The conditions in the staff dormitory were not very good. There were two iron bunk beds in the narrow room. The edges of the iron beds had mottled rust marks. One of the lower bunks had signs of someone living on it, and the other bed was empty.

Looking at the house in front of him, which was several times better than his thatched hut, he contentedly placed his small bag on another bed without bedding.

It was summer, and by the time Xingjian walked from the entrance of the machinery factory to the dormitory building, his thin clothes were already soaked with sweat and stuck tightly to his body. He sat on a chair in the dormitory and took out the worn enamel bowl from his bag.

There was indeed a thermos in the dormitory, but the owner of the thermos was not there. Xingjian took the enamel bowl and walked out of the dormitory.

In the courtyard of the dormitory building, a row of faucets were neatly arranged. Xing Jian turned on the faucet, and the sound of running water was heard. Soon a large bowl was filled, and he drank it down with a gulp.

The water in the faucet of the machinery factory is tap water. It is warm under the sun in the hot summer, but it is not as cool and sweet as the well water that Xingjian drinks in Niuhu Village. However, after drinking a few bowls of water, the heat gradually fades away and Xingjian feels much more comfortable.

After drinking the Mercury Sword, he looked around the entire dormitory building. The walls of the building, which was built in the 1980s, were covered with black wires, and there was no fire-proof equipment. However, the faucet in the yard was very close, so even if a fire broke out accidentally, it should be extinguished in time. How could the entire dormitory building be burned down?

He walked slowly back to the dormitory carrying the enamel bowl. The workers who had been working at this time had not yet left work. The whole building seemed like a silent island, with only Xingjian's footsteps echoing in the corridor.

Compared to the hot environment outside, the dormitory building was particularly cool. Although there was no bedding on the iron bed, there was at least a wooden board. Xingjian was never picky. He put the bag he brought with him under his head and fell into a deep sleep.

I don’t know how long I slept, but Xingjian was awakened by the sound of a door being pushed open. A group of people pushed and shoved each other and walked into the dormitory laughing. When they opened the door, they found that another person suddenly appeared in their boss’ dormitory.

"Who is this Brother Cheng?" Everyone looked at each other and whispered.

Then a man walked in from behind the group of people. He was very tall and had a very sturdy build, with bulging muscles under his black vest. Xingjian felt that this man could beat the original man's small body to pieces with just one punch.

The man looked up and down at the new roommate who had suddenly barged in. Then, he turned to the group behind him and said, "You guys go back first. This is a new worker in the factory. I'll take him to familiarize himself with the environment."

As he spoke, he closed the dormitory door, and the dormitory, which was originally noisy, became quiet in an instant.

"My name is Xingjian. I'm from Niuhu Village. Today is my first day here." Xingjian was the first to speak and break the silence with a sincere smile on his face. However, the other party did not appreciate it. He snorted and ignored the hand extended by Xingjian, with no intention of shaking hands at all.

Xing Jian was not embarrassed because no one was talking to him. He calmly withdrew his hand and stared at the man's back. Unlike the lively interaction with the group of people outside the door just now, the man in front of him suddenly became indifferent. Either because he looked down on him because he was from the countryside, or because he was inconsistent and not as good-tempered as he had just shown.

There was only a hard wooden board on the bed without any bedding. Although it was summer and one couldn't be afraid of the cold, Xing Jian didn't really want to lie down on the hard wooden board. He stared blankly at the unused bedding on the bunk above Cheng Yan.

Cheng Yan keenly noticed the child's gaze, frowned and asked, "No bedding? No at home?"

Xing Jian shook his head when he heard this. He was indeed not lying. The bedding on the bed where Xing Jian slept in the thatched hut in Niuhu Village was all made of straw.

Although it is not very warm, it is soft.

There was not even a single quilt for winter. In memory, the original owner moved from one villager's home to another in Niuhu Village during the winter, let alone having a quilt of his own.

Looking at the beautiful child in a daze in front of him, Cheng Yan lowered his head and said a swear word, then threw a towel at Xing Jian's face.

"Let's go take a shower."

There is no bathhouse in the staff dormitory building. If you want to take a bath in the summer, you have to go to a large bathhouse outside the machinery factory.

The original body had never been to this kind of bathhouse. He was holding only a change of clothes and the towel that Cheng Yan had just thrown on his head, and was walking behind Cheng Yan.

The employees he met on the road looked at Cheng Yan and greeted him one by one, including some of the main characters that Xing Jian saw in the original plot.

But strangely, there was no description of the man in front of him in the script. It seemed that the man in front of him was just a cannon fodder in the plot, just like himself.

There were quite a few people bathing in the bathhouse on summer nights. Xingjian had never seen such a bathhouse before. The benches outside the bathhouse were piled with clothes, and through the windows inside, he could vaguely see the figures of other people bathing inside.

Cheng Yan had already taken off his vest, revealing his toned chest and abdominal muscles. He frowned at Xing Jian, who was standing there motionless, "What are you doing here? Hurry up and take off your clothes and go take a shower."

When Xing Jian looked up, he saw the man's bulging muscles. His face instantly turned red to his ears. He said with a somewhat unnatural look, "I don't want to take a shower anymore. I want to go back."

As he was about to stand up and leave, he was grabbed by Cheng Yan. Cheng Yan not only had bulging muscles, but also had strong hands. The moment he grabbed the Star Sword, a red mark was left on his arm.